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{{quote|If there's one thing to learn, it's you just can't go wrong,
If you follow your heart, and end with a song.
''[elaborate song and dance number]''
|'''The Narrator''', ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''}}
A film, despite not previously having been a musical, ends with a [[Crowd Song]] (possibly a traditional musical number, more likely lip-synced to an existing recording) involving a significant portion of the cast without regard for the previous relationships (or even physical locations) of the characters involved. American examples are possibly derived from the straightforward (over)use of this trope in Euro cinema.
Frequently overlaps with [[Dance Party Ending]]. Probably related to [[
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== Film -- Animation ==
* ''[[Shrek]]'' ends with all the characters singing "I'm a Believer".
** And the first sequel ended with "Livin' La Vida Loca".
* The recent animated movie of ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' has all the characters break into ''Can't Fight This Feeling'' at the end. According to the [[DVD Commentary]], this was because they wanted to avoid a [[Bittersweet Ending]] where Horton has to leave Whoville behind and never talk to the mayor again, and that's all they could think of.
* At the end of [[Open Season]] 2, everyone begins to sing "Close To You" after the wild animals and pets settle their differences and become friends.
== Film -- Live Action ==
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* ''[[Inland Empire]]''
* "Age of Aquarius" at the end of ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]''.
** It definitely falls in this trope, but this is also a nod to the film's Bollywood influence; Bollywood flicks are generally loaded with song and dance numbers.
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* ''[[Bring It On]]'' ends with the cheerleaders lipsynching to "Hey Mickey." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH6is6hrV2Y clip]
* ''[[Casper]]'', the film, in which at the end the entire cast breaks out into a [[Little Richard]] cover of "Casper the Friendly Ghost."
* The final scene of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' shows the main cast of the movie and half the population of Toontown parading out of the factory as "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile" plays in the background from out of nowhere. A less out-of-left-field example than most, since the song had been heard earlier and it had already been established that Toontown was a naturally song-filled place.
* ''[[
* ''[[Evan Almighty]]'' has the cast singing and dancing to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" during the credits.
* [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s 1993 film of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' ends with virtually the entire cast singing and dancing to a song which made a couple of brief appearances earlier in the movie. [[In-Universe]], they're celebrating the wedding of Claudio and Hero.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Skins]]'' series one ends on a performance of "Wild World" sung by Sid, Tony, Chris, Angie, a few guys in the toilet, and a bus driver.
** The American remake ends with Stanley leading a performance of "Shout" on stage at a club.
* The hundredth episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' ends with an unexpected musical number about Barney and his suits.
* An episode of ''[[30
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Limbo of the Lost]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0 does this] extremely narmfully.
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
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